Recent Posts Tagged With 'video'

• A City Love Story

  Posted on Thursday October 22nd, 2009 at 07:59 in video, multimedia, project, images

  Today's activity is about talking about your city and the things you love, and was inspired by a YouTube video that tells a short love story. The Story is set in Beirut in Lebanon and tells the story of how two young people meet and fall in and out o...

• Learn to Put Your Make Up on in English

  Posted on Tuesday October 13th, 2009 at 06:01 in video, vocabulary, listening

  YouTube offers you so many opportunities to learn English and also to learn how to do new things, learn how to do things better or teach others how to do things.In today's activity we'll look at some 'home' produced YouTube channels and learn a bit m...

• Study a Classic of Literature

  Posted on Sunday October 11th, 2009 at 08:21 in video, literature, reading

  Many great works of literature have been translated into other languages, but there is nothing quite as good as reading a book in the original language. In today's activity you are going to study a classic of English literature; 'The Old Man and The ...

• Learn from and Create Animated Music Videos

  Posted on Thursday October 8th, 2009 at 06:23 in video, Lyrics, listening

  Learning English from songs lyrics and music is a great way to study. In today's activity you are going to be able to watch and enjoy some simple 'stop motion' animated music videos and then find out how to create your own.The videos for you to watch...

• Translate a Video Clip

  Posted on Wednesday June 24th, 2009 at 02:17 in video, translation, listening, dictation

  Translation can be a very useful tool in helping you to learn a language. It can make you think much more closely about the relationship of your language to the language you are learning. Translating also makes you think very carefully about the mean...

• A Virtual Job Interview

  Posted on Sunday June 7th, 2009 at 03:35 in video, questions, job interview, listening, business english

  Doing a job interview can be a very stressful experience, especially if you have to do it in another language. That's why it's good to get as much practice as possible and have a chance to try different answers to common interview questions.Today's a...

• Read Along With Films and TV Shows

  Posted on Wednesday May 6th, 2009 at 03:05 in video, reading, translation, listening

  Watching films and TV can be a great way to improve your language skills and it can also be a lot of fun. What you are watching can really help you to understand the language and how it is used in context.Watching films and TV can be made more produc...

• Culture and Small Talk

  Posted on Wednesday April 29th, 2009 at 03:35 in video, chat, business english

  A very important aspect of conversation is the ability to make 'small talk'. This helps to make people feel more comfortable and helps you get to know them better.Today's activity comes from Business Spotlight and is based around a video clip from a ...

• A New Video Dictionary Definition Each Day

  Posted on Tuesday April 28th, 2009 at 05:02 in video, vocabulary, dictionary

  Improving your knowledge of words and enlarging your vocabulary is a very important part of language learning. It's also very important to understand how words are used and what 'real' people think they mean. Words can have a very personal meaning fo...

• Ice Breaking Skills

  Posted on Friday February 20th, 2009 at 03:19 in video, reading, vocabulary, listening

  Making friends and socialising in English can be very challenging, so if you are going to parties or having English speaking friends around it's a good idea to start developing a few 'ice-breaking' social skills. A nice way to entertain people and ge...

• How To Tell If Someone Likes You

  Posted on Wednesday February 4th, 2009 at 06:11 in video, vocabulary, listening, body language

  Part of understanding communication depends on being able to understand people's body language. When we learn a new language we can often focus too closely on the words they are saying and forget to understand what their body movements and gestures t...

• Learn More About Business

  Posted on Friday December 5th, 2008 at 03:16 in video, vocabulary, business english

  Today's activity is a business listening one. For this activity we are going to use a website called Openforum which has lots of information about business and also lots of short video clips from very successful business people.This site has a lot of...

• Create and Ride a Hoverboard

  Posted on Friday November 28th, 2008 at 03:30 in video, fun, listening

  Today's activity is a mixture of listening and fun with the opportunity of having some real interaction with native speakers of English.The activity comes in two parts. In the first part you will watch a video and learn how to make your own hoverboar...

• Send a Thanks Giving Message

  Posted on Tuesday November 25th, 2008 at 03:00 in video, speaking

  With the US holiday of Thanks Giving approaching on November 27th I thought that today's activity could be connected and you could learn how to send a Thanks Giving video massage to any of your friends from the US or anyone else you would like to sha...